Don’t take his word for it though, these ideas seem pretty radical; conventionally what’s needed is liquid to alleviate cerebral dehydration. If you can’t bear to drink something non-alcoholic, compromise with pints of shandy (2% acohol by volume).

Then again though, there might be something to that whole theory, who knows? What neurologists are finding is that different ingredients in different drinks actually affect different parts of the brain. Alcohol doesn’t target a single receptor to cause the Alien-infested sensation in the pit of your stomach post-party hours, but several (left-over) brain receptors. Furthermore, chances are each individual will react differently to vast quantities of alcohol. I’m sure every one of you know people who get drunk on a certain drink far more easily than another, I myself can get blind drunk on scotch and be as bright as a pink clouds with butterflies the following day, but 4 beers will make me feel like an ostrich. Some people really do have a high tolerance for vodka or gin, say, but not brandy. But until doctors can sit us down and tell us, very matter of fact-like what we can and cannot drink to avoid hangovers I’m gonna have the time of my life using the proverbial trial and error system.